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Genetics

Genes for immunity are not the main thing

Generalization of all data on factors affecting immunity showed that genetics determines only 20-40% of individual differences in the immune system.

30.09.2016
Other life sciences

Superelastic bones

A flexible polymer from which bone blanks can be printed does not cause an immune response, fills with cells on its own and ossifies naturally.

30.09.2016
Controversial

Let's remember the whole Wikipedia

The American startup Kernel has announced the beginning of the development of an implant to improve the memory and learning ability of people with disorders of these functions – for example, in Alzheimer's disease.

30.09.2016
New in Gerontology

DNA methylation and the likelihood of death

A team of scientists from 7 countries has demonstrated that DNA methylation can not only determine a person's biological age, but also predict his life expectancy.

29.09.2016
Genetic engineering

Genetically modified plants: expert opinion

Why people are afraid of GMOs, how the GMO ban will affect science, how China is fighting GMOs and multinational companies, and how GMOs interact with nature.

29.09.2016
Biomedicine

Rhinovirus vaccine

Scientists have tested such a vaccine on cell cultures and found out that it provokes the development of an immune response and the formation of antiviral antibodies.

29.09.2016
Your health

"Maiden memory" of genes

After we stopped playing sports, the genes in our muscles quickly return to normal, "unsportsmanlike" activity.

28.09.2016
Nanotechnology

A useful side effect

Scientists accidentally discovered that iron nanoparticles, which were created as a cure for anemia, cause macrophages to attack cancer cells.

28.09.2016
Other life sciences

The propeller in the heart

The tiny Heartmat heart pump is inserted into the femoral artery, along which it is moved to the left ventricle, where it maintains blood flow, helping the heart to recover.

28.09.2016
Cellular technologies

The first "child from three parents"

The boy was born on April 6 of this year, but doctors decided to notify the general public about his birth only now, when it became clear that Ley syndrome was not threatening him.

28.09.2016
Healthy skepticism

Smeared with one world

We recently wrote about the falsification of research results on the effect of sugar on health. And whether to believe the research on the benefits of sweeteners? First find out who funded them :)

27.09.2016
Cellular technologies

Cellular gene therapy

Experiments on an animal model have shown the possibility of treating Duchene's myodystrophy by delivering therapeutic genes in stem cells.

27.09.2016
Healthy skepticism

Natural selection of "bad science"

More than half a century has passed since the publication of Cohen's work, but scientists still talk about successes, hiding defeats, and some even falsify the results.

27.09.2016
Nanotechnology

Therapeutic tattoo

Carbon nanoparticles can selectively suppress the activity of T-lymphocytes and reduce the symptoms of autoimmune diseases. At the same time, it is preferable to inject them under the skin.

27.09.2016
Other life sciences

Neurotransmitters, part 1

In the first part of a small educational course, Atlas talks about three of the most famous neurotransmitters, without which our life would be simply disgusting.

26.09.2016
Biomedicine

Nanoteranostics – the future of oncology

Professor of the MEPhI National Research Institute and the University of Aix-Marseille, Andrey Kabashin, in an interview with RIA Novosti correspondent Yulia Osipova, about the global prospects of nanoteranostics.

26.09.2016
Genetic engineering

RNA against metastases

Modified regulatory RNA molecules sent to the tumor in nanoparticles discourage cancer cells from traveling.

26.09.2016
Nanotechnology

Micro-robots-infusoria

The micro robot created by Korean specialists, raking cilia under the influence of an electromagnetic field, floats eight times faster than its closest competitors.

26.09.2016